Life-bringer the Student
Sañjīvajātaka
“Befriend a villain.”—This story was told by the Master when at the Bamboo-grove, about King Ajatasattu’s adherence to false teachers. For he believed in that rancorous foe of the Buddhas, the base and wicked Devadatta, and in his infatuation, wishing to do honour to Devadatta, expended a vast sum in erecting a monastery at Gayasisa. And following Devadatta’s wicked counsels, he slew the good and virtuous old King his father, who had entered on the Paths, thereby destroying his own chance of winning like goodness and virtue, and bringing great woe upon himself.
Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral
1.1PTS 1.511“Asantaṁ yo paggaṇhāti,1.2asantaṁ cūpasevati;1.3Tameva ghāsaṁ kurute,1.4byaggho sañjīvako yathā”ti.
2.1Sañjīvajātakaṁ dasamaṁ.
2.2Kakaṇṭakavaggo pannarasamo.
3.1Tassuddānaṁ
4.1Sukhamedhati daṇḍavaro ca puna,4.2Lasi vāladhi pañcamarādhavaro;4.3Samahodadhi kattika bondi puna,4.4Caturaṅgulabyagghavarena dasāti.
5.1Uparimapaṇṇāsako.
6.1Atha vagguddānaṁ
7.1Apaṇṇakaṁ sīlavaggakuruṅga,7.2Kulāvakaṁ atthakāmena pañcamaṁ;7.3Āsīso itthivaruṇaṁ apāyi,7.4Littavaggena te dasa;7.5Parosataṁ haṁci kusanāḷi,7.6Asampadaṁ kakaṇṭakavaggo.
8.1Ekanipātamhilaṅkatanti.
9.1Ekakanipātaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.
